Art Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

— Ambrose Bierce

A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want... I'm not trying to…

— Peter Doig

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

I'm just interested in what makes a photograph.

— Mary Ellen Mark

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art.

— Andreas Feininger

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

— Ruth Bernhard

The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world…

— Berenice Abbott

Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

— Emil Nolde

Im just interested in what makes a photograph.

— Mary Ellen Mark

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore,…

— Susan Sontag

I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not…

— Frans Lanting